Status (Original 12" Test Press Version) [Main Mix]

Godfather Don - “Status (Original 12” Test Press Version)”

[Emcee(s): Godfather Don]

[Producer(s): Godfather Don]

[Sample 1 (Melody): The Crusaders - “Marcella’s Dream” (0:44)]

[Sample 2 (Vocals): Lyn Collins - “Take Me Just As I Am” (2:04)]



[Intro: Godfather Don]

Yeah. Check it out. Uh, yeah



[Verse 1: Godfather Don]

Intense experiments provide intricate answers

Why I attack weakness like hip cancers

I sip lancers to drink the pain away quicker

My game stays slicker than all you gay trickers

I spray n***as like mace and ain’t illing

For the killing, I pack clips that spit in the millions

Fulfilling your needs like 1-900 numbers

Pretty when I talk shitty, now did he wonder?

Am I the true and living? No clues are given. Crews

Are getting waxed like wood floors and they be slipping

Ripping up mics like your ho on PMS, there’s

No reasoning for the treason and all the stress

The bleeding of the flesh is imperial for the serial

Killer iller than David Koresh. Waited

The best out, I’m nocturnal, I get ya

Like sweat, I’ll wet ya and left you like a specter

Just a trace of arsenic and old lace

The coroner can’t replace the holes in your fucking face

Chasing dreams like them kids from California

I’ma warn ya: I’m up on ya



[Hook: Godfather Don] (x2)

I’m in the mood to make moves and gain status

So let’s see which emcees be the baddest

I’m in the mood to get cash without the rocks

So let’s see all real G’s who don’t stop



[Verse 2: Godfather Don]

Peace to my nigs upon bids. I warn kids

Of my addiction to exterminate your fiction

Beherits inherit slug when the ash of rhymes

Bashed upon the fist the gods like the wrath of Don

You’re nervous ‘cause my word hits, you’re in a cata-

-tonic, my raps are pondered like Percenters up in it

So when I follow the sinner, smoke beginners

The winter of your discontent’s where I meant to send ya

The ends accumulate like kids in papa dot, I drop

A lot like diuretics to rock your knot, I embed it

The subliminal from the criminal militia

Remove heads for the love of Jesus de Christa

The list of comp’ that got stomped spans the ages

In my third life, I blazed and laid shame to sages

You don’t know me, I’m faceless, so take this

And puff one time for your mind and find traces

Of bodies battered and bruised, so cruise through the brew

Bloodshed and carnage results, so when I’m in the mood…



[Hook: Godfather Don] (x2)

I’m in the mood to make moves and gain status

So let’s see which emcees be the baddest

I’m in the mood to get cash without the rocks

So let’s see all real G’s who don’t stop



[Verse 3: Godfather Don]

You got the mark of Triple-Six, so I hit you quick

My script’ll flip any shit that your clip’ll flip

My lips’ll spit blades that cut, graze, and hurt no-names

Plain, insane, liable to go out like Kurt Cobain

I’ll lurk where shows playing, never show pain. Beneath the remains

I often see stains from games using propane

I’m putting fire under rappers’ asses, the master

Passes all herbs and nerds, I smash your glasses

Lethal intent from beefs, you’ve then since been deaded

Buried from the flurries of hot lead that was embedded

In swines’ noses. Fuck the days of wine and roses

Used to be my man, but check the threat my nine poses

My mind’s arose as I suppose it’s just the pressure

From hit squads gunning to get bods. Running, your shit’s hard

In the jungle of concrete, the Don peeps weak dreams

And break ‘em like pee streams—that’s my street scene

Mad depression, stressing the God and his essence

Blessing inverted crescents, letting slugs off in your session



[Hook: Godfather Don] (x4)

I’m in the mood to make moves and gain status

So let’s see which emcees be the baddest

I’m in the mood to get cash without the rocks

So let’s see all real G’s who don’t stop